This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

In the performance of a lifetime, Barry Bostwick proves what a truly great actor can do even in a film that trashes a literary classic. No piece of great literature deserves the fate that the novel Moby Dick suffers in this horrible production. Yet Bostwick may well be remembered in cinema history for his work in this film. With eyes that are clearly enhanced by a talented Hollywood plastic surgeon, he conveys the crazed, demented torment of Ahab as no actor ever has. His maniacal laugh chills the blood as one watches him masterfully interpret Melville's iconic character and incredibly make the role his very own. Barry Bostwick becomes Ahab, IS Ahab, in this production and it is as if the author had written the character with him in mind for the screen adaptation. Incongruous dialog is delivered with uncanny skill as archaic language is spoken in the modern setting of a 2010 model submarine. Few, if any other actor is so gifted that they are capable of delivering such profound lines in such surroundings with such convincing profundity and passion. The obsessive drive of Ahab is so real here that when Bostwick charges in a speed boat toward the gaping jaws of SyFy's version of a white whale, harpoon over his head, and crying out at the hated beast with his entire soul, it is something you will never forget. There are so many scenes of this kind where Bostwick almost sets the screen on fire with his brilliance that it would take an entire article to discuss them. Let it just be said that Barry Bostwick, the actor who so convincingly and movingly portrayed George Washington in the fine miniseries, surpasses everything else he has done in his career, for this is undoubtedly a powerful, jaw-dropping performance that will leave every viewer stunned beyond belief. While this SyFy movie is possibly the worst the network has ever produced, casting Barry Bostwick was brilliant and by accepting the role of Ahab, he has defined great acting in a piece of true artistry that will be forever remembered by those who appreciate an actor at the peak of his magnificence.

I am just glad that Herman Melville is not alive to see what they have done to his immortal tale of Ahab and his White Whale. I thought the film went over the top when they were using names like Ahab and Moby Dick, but when they added the character names of Starbuck, Queg Qheg, what really got me was the name of the submarine, U.S. S. Pequod, now that is just a little much. I am just glad that Herman Melville has been dead for over 100 years or he may come back from the grave and let us know what he thinks. At least they didn't have a character named Ishmael.Still, as bad as that is, I find the film compelling, maybe that's because I have such a craving for a stupid horror film. It's worth a watch if you don't expect too much from the film.

This is truly abysmal, but if you can mentally switch off to the embarrassingly terrible dialogue, acting, special effects, make up, set design, camera work and generally everything else to do with the movie, then it's not that bad.What's good:(1) The score. Generic action movie background music, but it works quite effectively, helping distract from the general awfulness of what's happening on screen.(2) The basic premise of the story is good. Replace the sailing ships of the 19th century book with nuclear submarines, making Ishmael a marine biologist abducted by the submarine captain, a man obsessed with hunting down a rouge giant mutant whale, all of them being pursued by the US navy who think that the captain is the cause of all the trouble ... actualty, I'm not quite clear what the motive of the pursuing navy was, but ... actually, I'm not sure about anything else, either, but, hey, it's a movie!(3) It made me smile, something a lot of 'better' movies have failed to do. Particularly liked the moment when a Russian survivor of a whale attack, who "only speaks Russian", immediately answers her interrogator's questions in English.(4) The actor playing Ahab is enjoyable, treading a fine line between Gregory Peck and Commandant Lassard in his portrayal of the submarine captain. Barry Bostwick is evidently an accomplished jobbing actor from IMDb information, and I imagine he can grip a stage audience with the conviction of his delivery, but there is no pretence here. He just gives it his all and hopefully managed to pay a couple of household bills afterwards.Expect a cross between The Hunt for Red October, Jaws VII, Police Academy and Das Boot's less funny out-takes, all performed by the local amateur dramatics theatre company 'B' team, and you won't be far wrong.I disagree with some other reviews, this is not awful to a "I-wish- there-was-a-way-I-could-unsee-it" degree. I might even watch it again on a dull evening. Eight out of ten? I know, but I just think this movies has a quality all of its own which should be recognized.

You know that feeling that if you saw a big red button in a nuclear facility that said "Danger do not press" you feel that in built human compulsion to press? Well I read the reviews here and thought what the hell. My god why didn't I listen??! This is without doubt the worst film I have ever seen for a long time. When it came to the point of the sub coming along side of the small boat I seriously thought this was a spoof film, I was waiting for Leslie Nielson to pop up with the "blow up navigator" {Airplane?} The nuclear sub pulls up alongside a small speed boat and the xo in the conning tower is only about two foot higher than the people in the boat!!! The crew where straight out of Police Academy ,note navigator with bandanna! Navy personnel in jungle pattern uniforms. Helicopter with no glass, flown by a pilot with muscular tourettes. Firing bullets at the sub underwater and the result of a major depth charge attack.It just got too much when the pilot flew the helicopter into the whales mouth....I nearly choked to death on my beer with laughter.I actually fell asleep half way through, but determined to see it through, like a bad trip to the dentist, finished watching on plus one.Must admit I did feel a sense of achievement like finishing a marathon!.It would have been great re-cut as a spoof film, think Down Periscope. Worth a look at if you if you want to see how not to make a film, but otherwise steer well well clear.One star because it did give me a chuckle